Eclipse and SHA code for Google Maps working as standard user

A best practice recommended from Microsoft is to work as a standard user, not administrator.

So i created a not-admin user on my Windows 7 64 bit and my everyday work is done logged in Windows 7 with this user.

But IMHO is only a source of subtle problems, and i believe that when i will change the notebook i will work with the old, good Administrator login : perhaps my base OS will be Linux , i don’t like Windows 8…

What are these problems? first of all , working as stardard user does not prevent virus and trojans from causing troubles.

For example i got a trojan that destroyed my Windows 7 firewall, i was constrained to a difficult firewall perms (it was the last solution the formattation, i was in a hurry with a web site) reconstruction (done as Administrator, obvious). And i was logged as standard user.

Another big issue is that the user directories are different , and if you use a sofware launching it as administrator (requested from Visual Studio 2012 for example) you can be exposed to a subtle misunderstanding.

I launch Eclipse for Android programming as administrator, because as standard user i got some problems.

So went the day in which i tried to use a Google Map.

The procedure is know, you must obtain a key from Google and use a local keystore (a file , in practice).

But the map was not appearing: after a while i understood that this was happening because the user directory was the administrator one…in the doubt from Eclipse/ADT > Windows > Preferences > Android > Build you can use the right keystore (the one of the user which is running Eclipse) and read the SHA value that must be placed in the Android project manifest.